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SpeciesRodentiaSciuridae
Mammals

🐿️Hoary marmot

Marmota caligata (Eschscholtz, 1829)

Das Eisgraue Murmeltier (Marmota caligata) gehört zur Gattung der Murmeltiere (Marmota).

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Measurements
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≈ 1/14th of your weight
Also called
Montague Island Hoary Marmot
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
4.3 kg
Body length
0.6 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
12 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Hoary marmot

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
4.3 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 4.3 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: questionable
Body length
0.6 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Brain mass
15 g
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
12 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 12 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: questionable
Generation length
5.22 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
2.3 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
30 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 29 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: questionable
Litter size
about 5
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 4.2AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: questionable
Trophic level
Herbivore
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Diurnal
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
4.3 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Hoary marmot yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderRodentia
  5. ›familySciuridae
  6. ›genusMarmota
  7. ›speciesMarmota caligata
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderRodents · Rodentia
  3. tribeMarmotini
  4. genusMarmota
All 15 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderEuarchontoglires
  11. orderRodents · Rodentia
  12. suborderSciuromorpha
  13. familySciuridae
  14. tribeMarmotini
  15. genusMarmota
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What it eats
leaves, roots and other plants40%
fruit30%
seeds and grain30%
In other languages
Eisgraues Murmeltier (de), Świstak siwy (pl), Marmotte des Rocheuses (fr), Kırçıl marmot (tr), Žilasis švilpikas (lt), Grijze marmot (nl) … and 16 more languages
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